Scarce footage of Rural Ireland circa 1940 in Color Enhanced
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- Rare in color footage of Rural Ireland in the 1940s with music. Film created with black and white footage that has been cut, colorized, reorganised and remastered for the viewers pleasure.
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0:00 Leaning on the Everlasting Arms - Zachariah Hickman
2:58 Waltz in Low Light - Nat Keefe and Hot Buttered Rum
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Hard times ☹️ but great people. They did the best they could. Fair play to them because without them we would be nothing…
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I am a mixture of Scottish Irish and visited relatives in Ireland for the first time, four years ago. I am now 88years old and have had quite a few holidays abroad but never have I felt such peace and belonging as I did in Ireland. It felt like my ancestors were calling me back. It’s a magical island.
Being Irish stays in the blood !!
I was able to spend two weeks in Scotland as a teen...I felt so at home in the Highlands...I found out later that my father's line came from that region and it all made sense.
I'm incredibly stubborn and independent and a hard worker 😆.
Only thing I lack is alcoholism 😆 but I do enjoy a few good pints every once in a while.
@@speshwemmick6225 You make it sound like a disease.
@@Alfred5555 good one! 😅 It is part of our DNA
Yes! When I was young I visited Ireland, and on visiting an old graveyard, I found myself drawn to a specific gravestone (which looked just like the others). It had my grandmother's maiden name on it! 😳😂
It goes to show in rural Ireland 80 years ago, people had their priorities straight: cat videos.
Being of Irish decent myself I look at this video and I bet life wasn't easy for them but to me I wish with all my heart I would have been there despite the hard times I bet there was a sense of community a kind of belonging times long gone now I'm in the latter years of my life I find the world has changed so much and not for the better sadly,
it was very harsh from what I hear, stern and strict parents with too many kids, and authority especially religious had an iron hand eg the magdalene laundries babies got taken away and that was that yet they were a lot more connected to nature, their source of food, hard work, better system going in local communities but not like that video they weren't hanging around together in shawls chatting in my grandmother's time...they found work in the big houses on the estates and sent their kids to Dublin aged 14 so they could earn money in terrible living conditions to send home to the 20 kids...but the food was great, from what I hear even among the poor...and no doctors
Men regularly beat their wives, families would have to lie and say they were pregnant and stay indoors just so their child wouldn’t get send to an abusive Magdalene Laundry… the sense of community was strong as you say. Sure, American. And it’s descent. They only reason you’re descended is because they kept the Irish slaves along with coloured people.
@@maryodonnell5760 will you stop my parents were both born in the 1930s . Everybody knew their neighbours it was a different country a better country in my opinion. I never heard any horror stories from them
Really, my father is from rural donegal, he said it was awful(in the 50s), no work, lots of poverty , priests with their hands out. Beaten by nuns at school. And everyone shit scared of the church. He Did say people where lovely though, he left in the 50s for England. He says it's a great place now, people a lot better off these days and the church lost a lot of power.
Above all very little crime. In the south of Ireland, in the year 1949 there was just one murder. A sister killed a brother over a land dispute.
A time when children were reared on hard work and little in the ways of comfort; it made them resilient difficult times ahead of them, mainly emigration to England or further , America and Australia. If it was either of the last two countries you can be sure they never saw their parents again.Traveling home for a vacation was very rare or impossible. When a family member left they held " an American Wake"...basically saying goodbye to a living loved to be sent away, never to be seen again. Heartbreaking.
It was all worth it to spread our blood all over the world. Many more of us exist than would have been possible otherwise.
Praise the triumphs and refrain from sulking in the negatives.
Thats so saddening. But men and women of those times were strong.. Hardship made them so.
They had integrity, a great sense of responsibility and of course were people with high morals. The younger people had deep respect for their elders.
Do we see even a glimmer of those days now anywhere around us? So lost are we in a vacuous world programmed by Instagram and equally other superficial social media.
Not true, a lot did come back and some stayed in the 1930s after the depression like my grandparents, it was only the one's who turned their backs on their families that couldn't be arsed.
@@MsRustynuts glad your grandparents came home. I'm not Irish but I'm glad they made it home. In the long run I bet that was very important
@@aethulwulfvonstopphen8013
Kennedy, Obama and Biden all claimed a bit of that Irish blood along with half the corrupt cops and officials in NY and other cities. There is nothing special about any nationality, they all have good and bad in them.
I grew up in the 60s on a small farm.
Nothing but slavery... Weeding beet turnips and spuds all summer, lifting heavy square bales, getting sunburnt on the bog, then picking spuds and pulling frosty beet and turnips by hand, . Thank God for modern farm machinery...
Done all that it was hard work for verey little pay
That's why young people today are good for nothing .
@@mikw1809 ????????
@@MsRustynuts ah dats a bit harsh
@@seamusmeehan6036 Is it ???
Try getting young people today to do anything that resembles work and see how it goes!
rural Ireland was still like this in the 70s, Ireland has transformed itself insanely fast since then.
Absolutely. I remember most of this in the 70s. Glencar kerry.
It has indeed and we're still no further on.
Me too only the 65 and later the 135 tractor had replaced the donkey and the horse and yes most people had a milking machine by then but modernisation done away with the small to medium mixed farm with a few dairy cows for a stable.
income.
These days three or four dairy farmers have more cows than the whole area had in the seventies and eighties their to their ears in debt cows go in in September October always under pressure as one man said they'd depress you listening to them and the rest of us are working off farm and making round bales to feed our cattle
There was tractors in the 70s in the early 70s there still was donkeys and horses going to the creamery by the 80s it was rare to see a donkey or horse working
@@davidmorris6278 he supplied milk to one of the County towns
That's when the people really were the " salt of the earth".
My Father would have been been 7years old at this time and he would talk for hours about his pigeons (which they ate) and his dog, they were very poor, very simple and not very easy times he would remind himself and his four sons. RIP Dad and thank you for generating this fill it has made me realise what he did for us all.
My Dad was around the same age, he lost his mom when he was 3 in childbirth, he also talked about his dog a lot which he loved…RIP dad we miss you, you were a good man.
Mine too, he was born in 1933 in Crettyard Killkenny
When I was a lad growing up in Donegal we often ate pigeons and one winter we were so hungry we ate the dog too. Hard times indeed.
I bet the poor old dawg was sweating it..
Bless you! Today So many of us are not thankful for all that we have. Which is plenty! We have no idea the sacrifice that our parents and forefathers has gave, to even put food on the table. And not only in Ireland. But in the good old USA. It saddens me to see, what they call progress, that's brought America so far from God! And I will add because of it America will be destroyed and I way of life has already been destroyed. Heartbreaking and fearful for our children of the future!
I remember carrying those bales of hay in the early 60s when visiting my grandparents during summer holidays sweet hot tea and sandwiches tea from granny after... God be with the days! 🥲 We were richer in so many ways back then..... and ..... knew right from wrong.. I love Ireland!
Thanks for sharing
A breath of fresh air real Irish people in there Beatufil homeland
My late father's family were flax farmers in Northern Ireland at this period, not far from Portadown. They were proddies, but except in the matter of religion lived the same way as their Catholic neighbours. Water came from a well, milk was brought over in pails from a nearby dairy farm, all heat came either from the stove or from the fire in the grate. He joined the RAF and left Northern Ireland in 1948 only returning for occasional visits. He brought my mother over after having got married and it slipped out that she had been baptised a Catholic, which did not go down at all well with certain of his relatives!
An anecdote my mother once shared with me about this time. She and my father were walking in a nearby wood and they came upon a ring of toadstools. My mother went over to have a closer look and my father, genuinely agitated, shouted out: 'Don't tread on them! That's where the little people like to gather!'
The island of Ireland been destroyed...Dublin
Religion really makes no difference at all. We all have to deal with the same weather, the same ways of making a living on our little island off the west coast of Europe, even the same damn government policies whether we like it or not!! 🤷
I'm glad you shared that regardless. Sharing difference of religions and what families thought is important to share that whatever the case, We are all no different. Irish. English. American. Indian. Whatever. These stories can be found everywhere I promise you. And they're great when shared.
@@gerrytyrrell1507 it'd be the same regardless. If you think its only rural Ireland that suffered you should cross the waters up north before the border. Culture and history is being lost but... Are we really the owners? We might have floating cities in a few generations who knows! If you dig deep enough you'd find truth in what I'm saying. If you were the last beautiful rural bastion today, people would be flocking all the way from England to Africa. We are all in the same boat.
So he was a protestant but CLEARLY believed in "the fae". The fairy folklore where by they were evil things not to be messed with and CERTAINLY NOTHING like the kids story books turned them into later on.
I would take living in such hard times over the comforts of the modern world anytime. I mean, look how classy these people were, and how simple everything was. Not to mention, the beauty of the land and the nature of the people. I would legitimately give anything to go back and never return.
People had dignity and community. They also had skills which would help you survive, not sure how it would go today!
Simpler and harder times when people had bugger all, but knew and helped all their neighbours, and at the end of the day they were happier than we are now.
Happiness is an elusive quality. This type of life, minus the no doubt extreme poverty, could well be the answer.
Truth
Of course they didn’t live very long and their bodies broke earlier from all the work. Not to mention war and and all that.
@@OrangeTabbyCat wars weren’t called for by the people
They're not happier than *I* am, end of day or start! : )
Hard physical work and cold and damp houses with no running water or electricity. But did you see those BEAUTIFUL shawls those women were wearing?
I too, have Irish Blood. I'm American red, white and blue. But have great love and admiration for Ireland and the Irish people. Different great grandmothers and grandfathers came over during or just after the Famine. Stories of the starvation and abuse and neglect from the land lords and the English were told and retold. The hardships of coming across the sea with hardly a penny in their pockets. And then to be met by terrible prejudice from non-Irish Americans. This film shows difficult times for the Irish. And yet how peaceful and hard working life was 80 some years ago. The rural areas of Ireland, the small villages. Many still without electricity. A very nice film to watch..... Thank you.
If I had a time-machine that allowed me to experience the pace of life in certain places during certain times in history, this would be one of them.
What else maybe? I always think the pyramids being constructed but I've been thinking even the ice age...
@@ltipst2962 Well, only if I wasn't part of the construction crew, and I had a thick bearskin coat and thermal boots!
Give it another decade or so and you'd have some antibiotics.
Except that this (1940) was the beginning of WWII . . .
@@tharding2870 Ireland was neutral in ww2
These children didn’t know what “spoilt” meant, but they knew what work meant!
No doubt their parents had it harder than them growing up, so they definitely knew what spoilt meant. Every generation has it better
Very much part of my childhood, no idle hands on a farm everyone got a task whether they wanted it or not.
Best be viewed but best to shelve the nostalgia. High emigration, lots of them, never to return. Hardship, poverty , high child mortality, Nah.... They were cruel days
Exactly. People romanticise these times way too much. While nice to look at I'm certainly glad it's gone.
Ah yeah shur it's all gravy today, a housing and homelessness crisis, rates of violent or serious crime increasing by the day, increase in substance abuse, mental health epidemics, long hours in jobs we hate, family life dissipating and not to mention.....(drum roll) climate change. Yeah we really are so much better now.
Its always intresting to see how people used to live and how places have changed over time. The saturated grainy film combined with the whimsical music, however, distort how we perceive it. Play some somber music over children in torn cloths and it elicits a very different emotion. If the same sceans where filmed with modern cameras it probably wouldn't look so picturesque. Its fine when its just a nice video but can be dangerous when people start demanding thing go back to how they used to be, when they don't even know what that is.
Yes very but you can't tell me that we live in good times. Ireland has changed dramatically and not all for the best
@@SentaDuck I visited southern Ireland in1982 and absolutely fell in love with the people and the country, unbelievably laid back and wonderful but I daren't go back for a second wonderful experience as I fear the influx of illegal unsavory financial parasites that have been foisted on to the Irish population as in many other countries has destroyed the heart and fabric of the country.
Gald to say we live and restored a similar cottage in kerry and with our two girls Try and live a simple life in 2022. Great video.
WOOO!!!! OFF GRID TO THE MAX!
@@OffGridInvestor nearly buddy. We getting there bit by bit. Love it. Although will we ever be allowed to go fully..Well.i mohht just die trying ha ba xx
@@worz678I assume little girls or if they're older how do you manage space?
@@damionkeeling3103 hey bud. So we lived in a caravan while my wife worked and i built. We hadn't had our girls yet. But yes we all live In the cottage. That's 500 square foot with open ceiling, all one room. This is the kitchen and kind of a nice lounge. Then i built a 400.sqr foot extensionn with attic bedrooms (2) there's another bedroom.down stairs. Two bathrooms one up.one down. Amd another lounge down stairs . But mate there ws 13 children living in just our cottage ! And two adults. It was devided into 3 rooms. This way I could buy for 65k and build for 110k furnished. Air to water underfloor bla blah .... it's in a tourist seaside destination. We are already mortgage free and living some bit of a dream. Would make good money in morning. I nearly got sold the grand design build dream from an architect.. half a million build ........... thankfully not......
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@@worz678- Congratulations to you and your upcoming family ❤️🏡🍀
The walls i remember as a child going to galway you could looking back now sence the irishness that came from the land the buildings that were left. Its always amazed me how churches survived. The landscape is breath taking. I love this country.
4000 years man there have been people here on this island for 4000 years were just specks in time and the landscape
Aah ! The old Irish way of life . I would sooner go back to it !
This is the Ireland my Dad and his seven sisters grew up in, until he ran away in 1930. They lived in a more rural area than this in the West of Ireland in Co. Mayo. At 2:45 the mustachioed man behind the donkey's head, looks a great deal like my grandad but it is unlikely that it could be him. These films bring the stories they told, to life.
Part of this looks like the Galway Mayo border, leenan, the castle the waterfall
Having Mayo Blood is a very big plus , the people of Co Mayo are the most decent respectful people I have ever lived amongst as a blow in from the Irish Midlands/ also Manchester. Be proud of your roots .
@@rozdoyle8872 I am!
Beautiful quality shawls on display
My dads folks immigrated to Canada in 1904 from Northern Ireland, county Formah west of Belfast. He got work in Toronto. Lost a little girl Mary at birth. Dad was born in 07. Grandad worked on the docks until one day his English foreman called him a mick. It may have felt good to of bloody’d his nose but he was then unemployed. Moved west to Alberta to a homestead in 1910 that I now live on and farm. Nice to see these films. Like a glimpse back to my roots. We have it easy physically but sometimes peace of mind is missing.
Think you mean Co Fermanagh where I live
Fermanagh blood. Its not a bad thing 😊
You should probably have spelt it Fermanagh!
I an Irishman born out of Ireland, but I know home when I see it.
Galway and Connemara, how fabulous ❤️
It's Mayo
@@squarecircle5522 where'd ya see that? 🧐😂😂
@@squarecircle5522 Kylemore Abbey is shown in the video and is still in Connemara. What part of the video was showing Mayo? I would be glad to see it. It would make sense to film in both areas as long as someone filming is there.
@@jordrand7776 the mweelra mountains, with the people working in the fields is in Mayo, probably the killadoon area, that is not connemara, Mayo is not in connemara.
@@squarecircle5522 Ok, thanks. I was serious about wanting to know where you saw views in Mayo. After seeing the Kylemore Abbey bits I knew some parts were in Connemara. When someone recognizes the mountains in a particular area I have to say, "good eyes" and I believe you.
The scenery there and Kylemore is Connemara, and I think they were a few years behind the rest of the country and sort of kept older traditions going longer...my grandparents in the midlands and north didn't have this sort of community life, there was a network that worked but people were much more to themselves rearing 20 kids. My parent's accounts of growing up was different to this with some similar aspects, I remember the cocks of hay and everyone coming together to rake it in manually, there was always someone with one on a trailer alright and we'd be covered with ticks and Lyme was not a community fear...they ate very well while in poverty, had a system that worked when it came to sharing a pig or whatever in the community and they all grew their own food and the blackberries didn't rot on the trees with people buying imports for 5 euro a punnet covered in chemicals...there was a lot to admire, I grew up in their rural world...big adjustment now with europeanization, immigration and tech...Ireland is gone but a lot to learn from the past that new generations will never hear about
"Europeanisation" lol more like deracinated to the extreme and "immigration" more like controlled invasion in everything but name.
Our leaders are traitors and are doing everything they can in roundabout ways to bring about our demise for all people of euro descent nothing we have is allowed to be sacred or untouched.
Where's Ireland gone?
The mechal I remember it well
@@tonymaxwell949 it's in the grave with O'Leary we've made alot of progress sence I was young in the 70/80's but at what price.
@@xn9333 lol europeanisation is definitely meant to cover a broad range of things, immigration someone posh has written a book to the effect it definitely is an invasion and trying to understand why...as for Irish leaders, they are cowards and puppets, not engineering this themselves
From Irish decent...my father and his family came over after the war...to grimsby...a hard working man...building grimsby and surrounding areas back up after the bombings
Just a thought....those donkeys in 1940 are remarkably well looked after and are wear suitable tack .....unlike the endless heartbreaking donkeys we see aboard in the charity ads.....
I thought similarly about a 1902 film of Cork I saw the other day. Compared to the films of London, New York and Germany, the horses were not limping, were not scared, were not underfed, were not being flogged and were generally well groomed and appropriately tacked up.
d-e-S-c-e-n-t as in descend.
@@louisehogg8472 sing it out sister !
I thought to myself ...look how clean the village looks even the animals are so well taken care of.
They make us proud.
Lovely film , thanks for showing! The real Ireland 🇮🇪
80 years from horse and cart, to chaos
Only 30 years for me. We had a horse and a cart and lived a similar life - without the peat cutting though.
@@theclumsyprepper lucky you, if only the rest of the world had followed suit. Maybe we wouldn't be in this mess. Quite as yet.
@@honestjoe7940 makes you wonder, does it not?
Don't get me wrong, it was a tough life at times, but it gave me resilience, heap of skills, grounding and appreciation of what is really important in life. This is what's missing in today's society I think. People lack purpose, motivation, imagination and spine - waiting for daddy government to take care of them and keep them "safe".
Common sense gone out of the window as well.
When people would actually work
@@John-uo1qf There are 400 people to every job currently. An the Job market is decreasing. I think you mean, when the population of the UK was about 15 Million as apose to 68.5 Million and another 30 Million Illegals. So close to 100 Million now. I think if you asked most people. They would want to work. but "You will own nothing and be happy" I think we need a Great Reset and the current Perfect Storm, should see us separate the wheat from the Chaff
The Lassies were stone mad for a shawl !!!
Im nearly 60...l remember my Grandmother and the other women all covering their hair for Mass and the ling black shawls they used ....by the 80s it was hats and headscarves...
The Town Church was old and beautiful in its plain wood hand painted Jesus and plain wooden Altar etc ....
Thanks for this. My mother was born and raised near Bonniconlon, Mayo in 1914, my father in Leitrim in 1907. This is the Ireland they grew up in. One of my greatest regrets is that I never learned more about their lives there. They had so much to share and I was too stupid to ask them about it. Luckily, though, I got to know my aunts and uncles on both sides and they were WONDERFUL. I can honestly say that I adored them. To them, when I visited I was coming home and I have always felt that way. I did learn much, but not enough, from them. It's so sad how quickly the stories of the past disappear into nothingness if we don't seek them out.
Robert. Get John McGahern's books. A great wrote. He lived in Leitrim, died a few Years ago. Or even get "standing in Gaps" by Seamus O'Rourke. Same área.
Thanks, Dolores. I know of McGahern. My cousins grew up in Ballinamore and his homeplace wasn't that far from B-more. Near Fenagh IIRC. Actually drove by his house one time just for the heck of it. I've started a couple of his books. Will have to dig into them again.
Haven't heard of Seamus O'Rourke (a BIG surname in Leitrim!) before. I'll have to look into him.
The knowledge I mourn the loss of is that of my family. Even as recently as my grandparents, heck my parents, it all becomes very cloudy very quickly. The farthest back I know with any certainty is my great grandfather who was born in 1829. And I know little of him except for his name and date of birth. Sad really how quickly all the details of these lives disappear.
Thanks again. Greatly appreciate it.
@@remaguire Thank you!! Leitrim is a very beautiful county. You might also like Michael Harding. Same general área. Obviously not in se lesgue as McGahern but interesting. . All the best toyou!
@@doloresaquines Thanks, Dolores. I just got O'Rourke's book. It will be very interesting since it seems that he grew up around Carrigallen and so did my father in a little (very little) town called Newtowngore. I'm sure I will greatly enjoy it.
@@remaguire For sure
And Seamus is a well known actor
His momologues are amazing.
Unfortunately every now and then massive infant mortality, bronchitis and hard physical work that broke your melt, most of my ancestors died in their early 40-45years ,if marriage at a young age and high birthrate had not been the normal practice ,my generation would not exist🤔🤔☘️☘️☘️☘️
That's right. I don't think the perpetual workload is appreciated enough what they did.
If my aunt had balls she'd be my uncle
And resulting depression and alcoholism. Visiting New Ross, my Grannies hometown. Grey, wet, cold. I couldn't live there.
No TV, no laptop, no Iphone or iPad, no cars, no obesity, no mobiles, no wonder everyone looked relaxed
From the surface it looks grand but very few people would swap then for now.
No modern medicine, no seeing loved ones who emigrated, no indoor plumbing, plus a world at war to name but a few drawbacks of the 1940s
No foreigners either
@@devanman7920 I would we would grew up with nothing not an indoor toilet not even a donkey n cart the neighbour across the fields had that but we had other Riches good community we all worked together to get by I was happier then that I am now I'd gladly go back
Simple and beautiful life
All Hard Working people.. We've come a long way..But got Nowhere..
Those blankets are coming back into fashion.
They're shawls.
I think it’s a great clean living live I would go back there in a heartbeat 💗 life now is horrible greedy and a lot mot more they were family and stayed together and had the great memories sadly no more 😢
Thats the lifestyle my grandfather would have left behind at age 16 in 1906, when he sailed to Swansea and moved in with his older brother in Maesteg, probably becoming a coal miner like his bnrother. He joined the army in 1909 and served in the Royal Garrison Artillery in India till 1914, when they returned home for war in France. He was awarded a DCM for repairing field telephone wires under constant fire at the Battle of Loos around sept 1915 and served till 1919. He married in 1918, moved to Oxford around 1920, raised a family, and lived till age 80. I found his lost medal listed on an auction in 2012, while researching his military history. He was born in a place called Redshire, County Wexford. Some of these scenes appear to be on or near the coast, I dont know where they are, but maybe much like wexford was back in the 1900s.
Great history there of your grandfather. Sounds like he was a real goid guy
My mother born 1916 raised on small farm in West of Ireland. She used say " hard work never killed anyone " . I think thers a lot of truth in that. Idleness is the short road to misery is an old proverb.
My mother was born 1916 too raised small town in Cork and she use say same!
I'm from Poland originally and my dad used to say the very same thing.
Just watched a movie called "The Wonder", reminds me of that.
Beautiful.
Lovely. In 1966 my husband and I drove from Vienna, Austria to Budapest on the main road, passing through villages much the same as in this video. I remember a donkey cart just like the one here. People ran out to their gates to watch us drive through. In Yugoslavia we saw farms where people were still sharing their houses with the animals.
Yes oftentimes in the old days .. the animals were kept downstairs and were like underfloor heating for those living upstairs .. the old ways are the best ways I feel .. who needs all the complications of modern life .?
Look what a mess “progress “ has made .🍀
Thanks for sharing!
Rural Ireland at its pure no mobile phones no suvs no vehicles no pressure people had time to talk
Mmm, not sure about that. I'm guessing their time was filled 7 days a week. How many fires a day? Making bread, how long would that take? Cleaning out the hens, getting the eggs, milking the couple of cows, getting water from the river, etc.
I'm not saying it wasn't satisfying or enjoyable. Just busy.
But then what gives you more satisfaction, baking and eating fresh bread with your family and friends or watching another program on the telly?
@@Google_Does_Evil_Now I'm sure they worked and talked at the same time, that's what we did. We didn't have electricity for most of my childhood and teenage years so no TV to distract us from work and good conversations. I still miss that - being in the kitchen with my dad and younger sister, cooking, baking and listening to his stories.
Grandfather from there abouts. The carefully-crafted structures, gear, well-tended produce, smiles on faces and general robustness, suggests underlying wellness.
It was a very hard life physically, but a much simpler life mentally, there are always pro’s & cons to every generation,, We have everything now at our fingertips, but still not content, still not happy always chasing something ! We put our values in all the wrong places , sadly .. Those ppl back then knew no
different or better so they just got on with their daily lives , for better or worse .. Tough ppl .
I thought I recognised Kylemore abbey and the Leenaun region Galway. Very peaceful.
Excellent video. It brought back a lot of wonderful memories of my childhood in the late 50’s and early 60’s.
Listen to the Dubliners song " in the rare old times" it says it all
I was born in 46 and to see the changes means that I see what these ordinary people did to build the country we have today. Not a silly monarchy but a strong republic of a proud people. God bless their sacrifice, better than any soldier.
Powerful comment from you there Bat- our Strong - Resilience - flowing through our Blood from our Powerfully Ancestor's made us what we are. May those who departed through death all R.I.P. God Bless You Bat...🙏🙏🙏🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🙏🙏🙏
Such hard-working people and animals! 💕
I love this I lived in Ireland in the country my great grandparents are from co wexford
This video reminds me so much of director John Ford and his classic 1952 film The Quiet Man with John Wayne. That movie epitomized old fashioned Ireland.
@@michaelverbakel7632 that's a time I would have liked to live, the Quiet Man period.
Same. My grandparents. My wife's ancestors too. Small world.
@@redtobertshateshandles yeah it's a small world and the Irish people are scattered all over the world
Absolutely beautiful music and great video thanks
Beautiful wholesome time in human history.
Lovely old film.
Definitely 👍
I am so glad I found your channel. Liked and subscribed.
Beautiful, enjoyable, thanks so much for sharing.
So many traditions gone. A time when everything wasn't needed next day delivery.
We have recordings like this made by my mum in Spain in the 70 in an old country village. Farmers using a threshing board from the Middle Ages and oxen. Like going back in time. I wonder if there are still farmers in Europe somewhere now using these old methods. Beautiful footage, thanks for sharing.
Thank you for sharing this beautiful film.XX💚💚💚💚
Thank you too
Harder times, but better and happier times, people looked after each other, it's all about Greed today and how much u are worth and lots of corruption.
An awful lot of very hard work going on there. God help their backs as they hit middle age.
My grandfather had to leave his home in the beautiful but poverty stricken west of Ireland at age 14 in about 1895. He came to the UK to work with many others from his area as a farm labourer. His younger brother went to the US and worked as a builder.
I know grandad always hankered after his home. And indeed it was beautiful. But the soils are thin.
What do you mean by soils are thin?
@@ismailmiah1446 shallow for farming. Not productive.
@@johnobrien9143 why is that like
The soils CERTAINLY AREN'T compared to where I grew up in Australia. 12 inches of rain a year which went straight thru the rubbish sand.
Why do you not want to see the true Ireland
Beautiful Ireland then the way of life was much slower but everybody worked so hard in those days.almost all work was handball no machinery to help with heavy work.Thanks for video
This was lovely!! Music, countryside, market day, all of it. 💚🎶💚
you can now buy Irish Kerrygold butter and cheese in every supermarket in the US and world wide - unbelievable
I was amazed at the strength of that young lady carrying a huge load of hay on her back. I'm also thinking about how drastically Ireland transformed after computer technology hit the world. Hoping that the friendly, communal spirit is still common in Ireland, even in the cities.
Working like that in a dress. The men in suits and jackets making hay. Incredible really.
Girls and women not allowed to wear pants you'd think? Remember tis summer for saving hay time. Hay, by the way, is very light. It's grass let grow out to 3 to 4ft tall. Cut, then tossed and gathered after it dries out. Tied than stacked outside like this if they didn't own a 'hayshed' to store it for the winter. Put a net or sacks weighted down with stones on rope to stop it all getting taken by wind or rain. The family worked together. If you didn't own a horse? Your relative or neighbor with one would help or if you had money? Could hire one for the day to haul it to the hayshed. Radio no tv. So little to distract you from chores and work to be done such as cutting turf, hay, harvesting fruit and vegetables. Putting up your stores for the winter for yourselves and animals. Couple of hens, ducks or geese for eggs. A pig for bacon. Cows for milking and calves to sell to buy your beef, flour, sugar, tea, newspaper, pectin to make jam. Exchange milk n eggs for fish. Make your own soda bread and jam. Raspberries, blackberries, blackcurrant, redcurrant, gooseberries. Buy in strawberry jam or lemoncurd. Make your apple pies from your own apple trees. NO CINNAMON. The yanks try to tell me Irish put it in the pie! Liars. We do not. We don't eat corned beef n cabbage either. New York invention, boiled bacon n cabbage n carrots? Yes! Rhubarb tart. Buy in vanilla ice cream of a sunday after mass to treat your hard work with a slice of pie for tea. Tea drinking! Loose leaf back then. Tea bags how are ye!, lol. Have your own milk, cream and make your own butter. Fruit cake for sunday. Biscuits for visitors and christmas tins! Custard with the cake or pie until sunday. Make your barm brack for halloween. Fruit cake and pudding for the christmas. Station in the house to bless you, family, house, animals and farm. Make your st brigids cross from reeds. Store your spuds, turnips, onions, carrots, parsnips. Catch your eels in the river to be jellied. Couple of mouser cats. Your border collie for sheep and cattle. Shear the sheep and keep some wool back from sale to make your sweaters, gansie, aran sweater, cardigans, vests, hats, scarves, mittens. Keep a sheep skin for a rug. Repair your roof and leaks over the summer. Mass of a sunday. Men to bar, women to the snug, kids outside with a bottle of pop with...a paper straw!! Shoemaker to repair the soles or buy a new pair of shoes, belt, purse, fix the saddle or harness. Fair day to sell your animals, open air auction, or one on one. Travelling sales of dresses and music, toys, delph, tableclothes, shawls, hats, coats, jackets, boots, tools, kitchen utensils, pots n pans, blankets, towels, tea towels,sheets, fake flowers, wreaths for the graveyard, pictures for the walls, religious and scenic, statues for the house, picture frames, farming implements, car parts, buckets you name it! We had local stores but twas exciting and competitive to see what they had compared to our local merchants. A gift for a birthday, anniversary, wedding gift, so's you didn't have to answer 40thousand questions who's it for? How old are they now? When's the wedding? When's the christening? Oh no! They died? Building a house? Going on holidays? Christmas gift? Who's pregnant? Oh gosh, they're emigrating? Coming for the summer? Oh who's in hospital? Starting school? Moving? Renting? Going on honeymoon? They won the bazaar.? Gifts for the xmas bazaar? Gifts for boy scouts? Gifts for the football club? Need needles and crochet hooks? Whose the gansy for? Wonderful wool and colour no? How many yards for the dresses? The pants, the waistcoat? The hats are here, an away wedding is it? These are just in this week, try them on mrs! Wonderful fit these new court shoes no? Oh visitors coming? New cushions and towels are important no? Etc. Some of that would have you thrilled to escape and join your brothers n sisters abroad. First holy communion dresses, veils, socks and shoes are here! Christening robes here. Confirmation suits here. New suit for the funeral?
Lovely to see an actuality that has gone. A privilege. Real life, good, bad or indifferent! It must one great feature of our times that such glimpses backward are so accessible. Unimaginable in 1940.
Subscribed. My grandfather went to visit some relatives in Ireland and wasn't impressed that there were live chickens on the kitchen table.
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Thanks for the sub!
😁LOL Normal back in the day.
@@speshwemmick6225 they must have known a secret to stop them from shitting.
@@redtobertshateshandles 😅It wasn't the chickens that concerned me even as a childer as much as the pigs!!
Замечательный фильм, окунулись в,, далёкое прошлое с ручным трудом и натуральным хозяйством,, .
I knew how to 'tackle up an ass'.We used to borrow neighbour's asses to bring the turf home . Thank you to you all.
I kept playing that part where that baby girl grabbed that black kitty. Awe 🤗
For me it was the old man at market day just where Hickman's music changes! And while I replayed his lovely smiling face I put it back to the start for another listen!
Absolutely amazing young lad 🇮🇪🫡🍀
So beautiful to see. Thankyou 🙏
My pleasure 😊
Looks a lot more like the 1920s judging by the hats, clothing etc
You can expect 20s fashions to still be around 20 years later and working men's fashions didn't change much from the early 20th century until at least the 1960s. The blankets the women were wearing instead of coats look very old fashioned but in a poor rural area these well made colourful garments may have been quite fashionable.
It probably applied to Ireland too, but the UK had campaigns against buying new clothes. It was considered patriotic to wear old suits because it meant the cloth that would have gone to new ones could instead be used for uniforms and other war material.
SOME CHILDREN AND SURELY GRANDCHILDREN OF THOSE WHO SURVIVED…THIS IS THE BEST OF IRELAND….(LOVE THE MUSIC)..
Iv lived in ireland my whole life I saw the trubbles and it's end and bye god the beauty of ireland is worth a million hardships it's a lovely place to have grown up on the border iv seen a lot as a child but would not give up for the world. God bless you all
I find this fascinating n many ways.... clothing, wagons, WWII n Europe, simplicity yet hard life.
Now kids play video games and watch TV all day. I live in rural Ireland and almost never see children playing outside (except football or at the beach in summer). All my Irish nieces and nephews are home mostly playing indoors on their phones and computers. Times have changed. Lovely video tho for all to see.
Very hard times, but safer and happier times 👍
in ww2,are you nuts?
Happier times? I don't think so. There was a lot of misery, poverty, hardship and loneliness in rural areas. Marriage rates were low and emigration was high. Doesn't seem like many people were happy.
Thanks! 👏❤️ І love to look into past times and see the life and fashion of that time!
Brilliant to see this in colour, hard and simple time.Even though I'm looking at this on my phone,Damn these phones.
Brilliant ❤
This is an invaluable document of social history. In videos like this, I often wonder who these individuals were and what their life story was. It would be wonderful if these scenes could be geographically located as a "then and now" piece. 👍
Hadn't changed that much in 70s when I was a kid on the farm in Mayo. No running water, car, tractor, telephone or piped gas. Transport was bike and donkey and cart. Hand-cut turf and hay. So different now.
The music also is very nice. Thankyou
It says circa 1940 but it wouldn't be much different if the film had been shot in 1840 or even 1740 - amazing how fast Ireland has transformed itself in just 50 years between 1970's and 2020s compared with the previous 200?
We call it freedom
Perhaps... but the potato famine did not start until 1845...
The biggest difference I see is the clothing style... especially men's. The rest is out of a time machine!
This was the kinder simply way life suppose to be .. today less work less respect more hate and people in general don't love there self or any body esl wish could turn back time and live the way GOD intended 😏thank for this peaceful video 👍
i used to cut turf like that..dry it..cart it home..
Pleased to see something that was in Black and White restored to colour for sure.
Precious.
Hard to believe that's the 1940s, when farm mechanisation was already in full flow. More like the 1920s.
Absolutely inspiring. Just think of how those people suffered and survived and rose to great heights when opportunity was presented. This is a reminder to pay attention to how people overcome adversity. Blessings galore.
My late dad came from a farming background in the Nire Valley and this reminds me of him.
Ireland for the Irish ☘️
Amazing how demoralised the society has become. Ireland today hasn't progressed, it's regressed.
Firstly, to the music of, "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms" ......this song was sung at the end of "True Grit" and sung by the great Iris Dement.....
Looked up Iris Dement - haunting version all right. Very beautiful voice. Had never heard of her before.
"Did I ever tell you about the old country, Jim? Ah, the old country! The songs! They'd melt your face!"
My dad would have been about 15 years old and barefoot in Co.Tyrone. As a child visiting relatives in N.Ireland in the mid 50s and early 60s I recall heapsof turfs in a shed where my cousin and I used to climb, Bob the ploughhorse pulling a barrel of water from the well in the top field, the rutted lane ('the linen' for some reason) before tarmac was brought in, thatched rooves of the farmhouses, going to bed with a paraffin lamp and the pumped up Tilley lamp for sitting room light. Even the battery for the wireless had to be taken into the nearest village for a recharge (or maybe a swap, I can't recall). Lots of homespun enertainment. Happy days for a child if you didn't succumb to any nasty diseases!
Ah the Tilley lamp 😍Do you recall the washbasin and jug and po under the bed?
@@speshwemmick6225 Wash basin and cold water for washing your face in the morning. I remember one morning there was an actual tadpole in it!
@@Telthecelt 😅
That was special. Some of these images look like old B&W family photos I used to be shown as a child, so the colorizing is a real eye opener. Like lots of the commenters here, my dad was seven in 1940. He and his brother left Armagh for Manchester when he was 17. I left Manchester in 1996 for Chicago! The night before my departure flight, at a big gathering in the local pub, he told me about the 'American Wake'; I'd not heard the term since that night so Mike53's comment really caught my attention. Before leaving for England, dad used to help his old fella with a sideline smuggling butter, sugar and the like across the border near Darkley & Keady where they all grew up; massive families of course - Rice, Traynor, Murphy, O'Neill, etc. My mum insisted we spent the entire summer holidays, every summer, in Keady and those are my fondest childhood memories. Dad is still going strong BTW; ninetieth birthday in a few months, all being well; still out & about with his new hip and his three new heart valves.....god bless the NHS!